1719 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1719 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley ^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera) ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby ^{[1] [3] [4]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly ^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler ^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne ^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley ^[8]

Events

• March – The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot is raised by Colonel Edmund Fielding as Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Foot. ^[9]
• date unknown
  • The Davies brothers of Bersham begin work on the wrought-iron gates at Chirk Castle. ^[10]
  • The first permanent legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar by Isaac Carter of Carmarthenshire. It is believed that its first two publications are Cân o Senn i’w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a’i Chynheddfau. ^[11]
  • On the death without heirs of Sir John Wynne, the Wynnstay estate passes to Jane Thelwall, the great-granddaughter of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet.
  • The Welsh Charity School in London moves to Ailesbury Chapel, Clerkenwell, where it remains until about 1721. ^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Christmas Samuel – Catecism o'r Scrythur
• Eglurhad o Gatechism Byrraf y Gymanfa ^[13]
• Browne Willis – Survey of Llandaff ^[14]

Births

• February – William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789) ^[15]
• 22 February – Joshua Thomas, writer and Particular Baptist minister (d. 1797) ^[16]
• 17 June – Joshua Parry, nonconformist minister and writer (d. 1776) ^[17]
• 30 November – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772) ^[18]
• date unknown – Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769) ^[19]

Deaths

• 11 January – Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet, 90 ^[20]
• 4 April – Thomas Powys, judge, 70/71 ^[21]
• 19 June – Captain Howell Davis, pirate, ca 29
• 11 October – Samuel Jones, Dissenting minister and tutor ^[22]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
3. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London; New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN   9781134982707.
4. West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
5. "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13375.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
7. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
8. Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
9. "41st (the Welsh) Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
10. Wales Tourist Board (August 1974). Castles and historic places in Wales. The Board. p. 41. ISBN   978-0-900784-21-7.
11. "About Adpar". Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
12. Temple, Philip, ed. (2008). "Clerkenwell Green". South and East Clerkenwell. Survey of London. Vol. 46. New Haven, London: English Heritage. pp. 86–114. ISBN   9780300137279.
13. William Llewelyn Davies. "Carter, Isaac". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 25 June 2019.
14. William Llewelyn Davies. "Parry, George". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
15. Edward Ivor Williams. "Edwards, William (1719-1789), Independent minister, and architect". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
16. "Thomas, Joshua (1719-1797), Baptist minister and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
17. Robert Thomas Jenkins; Emyr Wyn Jones. "Parry, Joshua (1719-1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
18. Williamson, David (1986). Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain. Salem House. p. 157. ISBN   978-0-88162-213-3.
19. Herbert Johnes Lloyd-Johnes. "Lloyd family, of Peterwell". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
20. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Wynn, John"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
21. "POWYS, Sir Thomas (c.1649-1719), of Henley, nr. Ludlow, Salop and Lilford cum Wigsthorpe, Northants". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
22. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Samuel ([1681?]-1719), Dissenting Academy tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.